Re: Textedit

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From: Michael G Schwern
Subject: Re: Textedit
Date: 12:18 on 18 Dec 2003
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 05:47:59AM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote:
> Which can be a curse in disguise, as my mum found out one day when
> she accidentally hit control-something and another couple of keys.
> Then she called me in a panic because the whole file had turned
> blue, then gone blank, then diasppeared. I'm not sure what she hit
> but I believe it involved "select all" and "autosave". She never
> got that file back.

FWIW  BBEdit solves this problem with a timestamped autosave option and also
the option to have timestamped backups on each save.  Poor man's version
control.


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